Jack Nicholson Quotes
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Jack Adams
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
Harold Ramis
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
Ike Barinholtz
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
Caitlin Moran
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Maeve Binchy
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
Aaron McGruder
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
Lance Reddick
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
Gary Oldman
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Ted Nugent
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Carine Roitfeld
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
Kat Graham
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
Nana Mouskouri
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
Irvine Welsh
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
Barry Jenkins
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
Rachel Caine
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson